First, he says that the poet or painter is an imitator, and in the third degree removed from the truth. 柏拉图.理想国.
And the tragic poet is an imitator, and therefore, like all other imitators, he is thrice removed from the king and from the truth? 柏拉图.理想国.
I think, he said, that we may fairly designate him as the imitator of that which the others make. 柏拉图.理想国.
Louis XV was the great-grandson of Louis XIV, and an incompetent imitator of his predecessor's magnificence. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
I should prefer only to admit the pure imitator of virtue. 柏拉图.理想国.
But will the imitator have either? 柏拉图.理想国.
Suppose now that by the light of the examples just offered we enquire who this imitator is? 柏拉图.理想国.
And the tragic poet is an imitator, and, like every other imitator, is thrice removed from the king and from the truth. 柏拉图.理想国.
Thus far then we are pretty well agreed that the imitator has no knowledge worth mentioning of what he imitates. 柏拉图.理想国.
That was the scheme of one man, an imitator without genius or merit. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
The mockers and mocked always inhabit the same region; we never find an imitator living remote from the form which it imitates. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Good, I said; then you call him who is third in the descent from nature an imitator? 柏拉图.理想国.
Then about the imitator we are agreed. 柏拉图.理想国.
His new imitator would come back from Egypt and India--Egypt and India were to be his Gaul. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Once more, the imitator has no knowledge of reality, but only of appearance. 柏拉图.理想国.
And the tragic poet is an imitator, and therefore, like all other imitators, he is thrice removed from the king and from the truth? 柏拉图.理想国.
But they did not; and therefore we may infer that Homer and all the poets are only imitators, who do but imitate the appearances of things. 柏拉图.理想国.
Imitation is only a kind of play or sport, and the tragic poets, whether they write in Iambic or in Heroic verse, are imitators in the highest degree? 柏拉图.理想国.
Imitation, then, is devoid of knowledge, being only a kind of play or sport, and the tragic and epic poets are imitators in the highest degree. 柏拉图.理想国.